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Spain's largest banks have reported dismal results over the past 24 hours, hit by toxic real estate assets, and according to analysts, the results highlight the desperate need for Spain's banks to raise more capital.
"The problems for Spanish banking are far from over," Ashok Shah, chief investment officer at wealth management firm London & Capital, told CNBC on Friday.
"The underlying real estate market is only half-corrected,so when it fully corrects over the next year of two, the non-performing loans are going to keep spiking up which will keep eating into the tier-one capital so the need to raise more equity is going to be enormous and very, very pressing indeed."
BBVA reported that profits fell 44 percent in 2012 as it made 9.5 billion euros($13 billion) in provisions on bad real estate loans from the 2008 Spanish property crash. The gloomy picture continued elsewhere as Caixabank reported that profits tumbled nearly 80 percent last year to 229 million euros ($311 million) as provisions doubled during 2012 to over 12 billion euros ($16.4 billion).
Banco Popular Espanol reported its biggest ever net loss of 2.46 billion ($3.36 billion) euros in 2012, compared to a forecast of 2.38 billion euros made by analysts polled by Reuters.
The news followed Thursday's earning miss from Banco Santander which showed that the bank's net profits had more than halved as it put aside almost 19 billion euros ($26 billion) for non-performing loans and property assets.
On January 1, Spain's Central Bank revised solvency rules and set a new core capital-ratio target for Spanish banks of 9 percent. It also said that it will require a quarterly breakdown of what Spanish banks are including as core capital. New regulations from the Basel Committee on banking regulations have also called for more stringent minimum capital levels, so banks maintain sufficient assets to face future financial crises.
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I brought up the massive popularity of camel for fall earlier this week, and now it's time to really take a look at some of the best bets for the season. This week's homepage is all about "The New Essentials"–these are handbags that, while they may not be brand new, still fit in perfectly with fall's trends. We've curated four sets of bags: Camel, Exotic skins, Black and Red.
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SAVI works much like MammoSite. It is a catheter used to guide the delivery of High Dose-Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy to the breast after a lumpectomy. Because it works from the inside, you can receive a higher daily dose of radiation and reduce your treatment time from several weeks to just five days.
After the breast tumor is removed, a small, SAVI catheter is placed inside the lumpectomy cavity through a small incision in the breast. This catheter expands like a tiny umbrella to fit snugly into the tumor cavity.
The catheter remains inflated throughout the 5-day treatment. During therapy, the portion of the SAVI catheter that remains outside your breast is connected to a computer-controlled HDR machine. This machine delivers radiation in the form of tiny pellets through the catheter at multiple depths for various lengths of time. You will receive two treatments each day, six hours apart. Once each treatment is complete, the pellets are removed through the SAVI catheter and the catheter is unplugged from the machine. You are free to return to your normal daily activities. No hospital stay is required. No radiation remains inside your breast in between treatments. After your last treatment, your SAVI catheter will be gently removed through the same incision made to place it.


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Cooking with Dassai 23Friday, November 20th, 2009
Sake lovers might not want to miss the rare opportunity to taste Japanese dishes made using Dassai 23 sake kasu (the lees or solids that are left after the sake is pressed from the fermented mash). On Tuesday, November 24, a tasting at The Japanese Culinary Center will feature sake kasu-marinated black cod and chicken as well as a salmon sake kasu nabe (hot pot). Attendees will receive a free package of sake kasu for at home use.
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It seems to be generally assumed that making cars safer for the occupants will reduce death, injury, and damage from traffic accidents.
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- Total cost of diabetes has increased 41% since 2007
- Rising costs are due to "sheer number" of people with the disease
- Estimated 22.3 million people were living with diabetes in 2012
Dr. John Anderson isn't surprised by the rapidly growing cost of diabetes in America. New research from the American Diabetes Association shows the total cost of diabetes was $245 billion in 2012 -- a 41% increase from the $174 billion spent in 2007.
"I know of no other disease that's increasing at (about) 8% per year," said Anderson, president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association. "That to me isn't surprising, it's troubling."
What is surprising, Anderson said, is that the increased price isn't due to rising health care costs. It's due instead to the "sheer number" of Americans who have diabetes.
"Medication costs have gone up, but overall they haven't gone up significantly," said Matt Petersen, the American Diabetes Association's managing director of medical information and professional engagement. "We have more people with diagnosed diabetes. A lot more of them. That's the burden we face."
An estimated 22.3 million people were living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in 2012, according to the new report, up from 17.5 million in 2007.
The growing population is due to several factors, Petersen said. Diabetes prevalence increases with age, so the aging baby boomer population is attributing to rising costs. The obesity epidemic also plays a role. Being overweight or obese is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unfortunately, not all risk factors can be controlled, Petersen said. African-Americans, American Indians and Asian-Americans are all at a greater risk of developing diabetes than Caucasians, leading researchers to believe there is a genetic link.\
"People fundamentally can't do anything about susceptibility," he said.
Diabetes can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, kidney failure and blindness, according to the CDC. If it's not kept under control, diabetes also can cause infections that may lead to leg or foot amputations.
Approximately 246,000 deaths were attributed to diabetes in 2012, according to the American Diabetes Association's report.
There is good news, Petersen said. Although our diabetes costs are growing, we're spending the dollars effectively.
"We're picking it up earlier and caring for it better," he said. "We're getting the right value for our money."
Anderson and the association hope to continue to spread awareness about diabetes. Addressing the disease on the front end, before it leads to serious complications, will help lower overall costs, he said.
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Organisations today face a conundrum when it comes to managing video content for use inside the firewall. While more and more video content is being created every year, the processes and techniques for storing it and making it available intelligently lag far behind. The result is an enterprise video landscape replete with impenetrable silos, wasted resources, lost files, and potentially unauthorised or improper use of assets.
In some ways, the mismanagement of video assets is no different from troubles facing many other classes of content. Every corporate information worker can relate to the frustration of not being able to find a spreadsheet or Word document in a complicated or poorly designed content management system (CMS). Video brings with it extra aggravations. Video files are big, so they frequently get placed in storage solutions that are bolted on to core CMS solutions. This makes it tricky to put video on a par with more text-based content inside these solutions. The culprit, usually, is a lack of metadata.
Enterprise search technologies such as the Google Mini or Microsoft Search Server can crawl text-based content and create an orderly index out of even the most wildly disorganised CMS. Video content is not so easily crawled, given that most searchable terms are not manifested in text form. Poorly searchable and inadequately indexed, a lot of valuable video simply gets lost in a CMS.
Then there is the issue of video content silos. Anyone who has ventured into the world of a large-scale CMS will tell you that content silos are inevitable. Different corporate groups need content management for distinct purposes, so incompatible silos of content arise automatically. Mergers compound the problem. Video, already a stepchild in the CMS, suffers even more from the disaggregation of siloed content. New industry initiatives designed to combat content silos such as Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) can help, but only if the video has clear enough metadata to make CMIS' cross-CMS querying effective.
In human terms, video content faces a challenge from shifting worker behaviours. Like it or not, we are now seeing the rise of the "YouTube Generation" in the workplace. People in the workplace are expecting to interact with video content in a fun, universally searchable, social environment. They expect channels, instant playback, and the ability to write reviews. For most users of traditional CMS solutions, this just isn't the experience they encounter.
There are several video management platforms on the market that enable users to have a YouTube-like experience with corporate video. However, anyone evaluating these kinds of solutions should watch out for the need to migrate content, which is an extremely expensive and organisationally difficult "gotcha" that can stem from deploying a video management platform.
IT consultants love content migration projects because they are typically long, painful, and costly. This is why, if you're the client, you should be afraid, very afraid, of content migration. If you are thinking about moving your video onto a platform that requires that assets be moved off of whatever platform they currently sit on, you will face some severe challenges. Perhaps most serious is the potential for conflict with the entrenched corporate CMS standard.
If you're a CIO, once you've gone FileNet, SharePoint, or Documentum, to name a few, you're invested in that technology for life. It's a rare video solution that will dislodge an IT department from its chosen standard. Whatever video content platform you select needs to be compatible with, and not require migration away from, that standard.
It's not a simple proposition to change the way an enterprise handles video, but today is looking better than yesterday.


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How Many People Will Get Fired After This Thrillist Junket?
The last time guy-site Thrillist put on a junket—to Jamaica, last fall—it ended up costing a New York Times freelancer his job, and prompting a stern warning to everyone else. But hey, free trip to Miami in June!
Place your bets in the comments as to how many brand-name reporters of one variety or another will show up for Thrillist's next thrilling free junket. We're guessing all the newspaper freelancers are out, leaving the whole trip to the "new media" types, who live in a wild and woolly world without any archaic "conflict of interest" rules. Party at the Fontainebleau! Woooooooooooo!


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David J teaches you how to incorporate the concept of storytelling into your improvisation. This concept utilizes everything Dave has taught up until this point.
Taught by Dave Weiner in Dave Weiner Artist Series seriesLength: 13:00Difficulty: 3.5 of 5
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I agree i have learnt soo much thank you for explaining it so simply even i can understand it
Dave, I have learned a tremendous amount of information from your lesson set. Thank you for your time and your great laid back teaching style!!!! I have definately become a fan!!!! Keep up the good work.
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Dave "David J" Weiner introduces his series with a lesson on the importance of rhythm in your playing and his concept of acapella playing.Length: 35:59 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Dave "David J" Weiner returns with a lesson on how to play with style and attitude. He covers all the basic techniques you'll need to get started.Length: 13:09 Difficulty: 1.5 FREE
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In this lesson David J teaches you about dynamics and phrasing and how this all ties into his basic musician development concept.Length: 8:00 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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David J continues his look at phrasing and shows you how to simultaneously build your stamina while playing over backing tracks.Length: 10:00 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Dave talks about turning repetition into melodic playing and how to start using motifs in your playing.Length: 15:36 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Dave switches gears and focuses on theoretical concepts. In this lesson he explains different ways to gain knowledge of the fretboard.Length: 10:09 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Dave shows you a way to find and learn the notes on the fretboard using the CAGED system. He then shows you how he would practice using the CAGED system.Length: 9:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Dave shows you how to advance your fretboard knowledge by creating licks that bridge the CAGED shapes.Length: 12:43 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Dave continues teaching how to master the fretboard by teaching open string licks.Length: 8:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Dave "David J" Weiner explains how to avoid sounding scalar. He shows how to jump around the scale and not just play sequentially.Length: 11:41 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Dave "David J" Weiner switches gears and gets in-depth with techniques. In this very informative lesson Dave shows what to practice, how to practice technique, and his own personal practice routine.Length: 21:06 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Short lesson, years to master. Dave talks about alternate picking and how to practice it!Length: 4:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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David J talks about legato technique, which uses very little or no picking. He shows you how to develop the technique and how to play longer runs on the fretboard.Length: 14:44 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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David J shows the basics of sweep picking and also shows you how to make it more musical.Length: 17:30 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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David J continues his look at various integral techniques to playing guitar with a lesson on tapping. He not only shows you how to do various tapping techniques but shows you how to use them in a real...Length: 14:28 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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David J finishes his lessons on technique with a video on his favorite technique, hybrid picking or "chicken pickin'". He shows how to get the country sounds and also how to incorporate it into every aspect...Length: 15:22 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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David J explains how the ability to improvise is a good test of a musicians understanding and ability on the instrument.Length: 12:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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David J shows you how to practice improvising first by using scales and then how to improvise with chords.Length: 5:21 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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David J revisits the concept of playing with motifs and shows you how to use it in your improvisation. He also shows you that building a lick vocabulary is vital to spontaneous playing.Length: 13:08 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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David J teaches you how to incorporate the concept of storytelling into your improvisation. This concept utilizes everything Dave has taught up until this point.Length: 13:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Dave sits down with JamPlay.com and talks about various subjects including his start with Steve Vai and his current projects.Length: 25:26 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
About Dave Weiner View Full Biography Facts on Dave Weiner:
-13-year member of Steve Vai's band ('99-present), 8 world tours, playing over 700 shows in over 50 countries.
-Recognized by NARAS for 4 Grammy nominations (guitar player, audio engineer) for his work on various Vai recordings.
-3 solo records: "Shove The Sun Aside" (2004), "On Revolute" (2010), "A Collection Of Short Stories: Vol. 1" (2012). Dave's solo records have shipped to all 50 states and over 45 countries.
Founding member of Philadelphia-based fusion trio, Visible At Night ([email protected]).
Graduate and instructor at Musician's Institute: Guitar Institute of Technology.
Master clinician and writer. Featured articles in Guitar Player, Guitar World, Premier Guitar, Young Guitar, Guitarist UK and many more.
Online lesson pioneer. Dave was one of the first to offer online guitar lessons via webcam. Dave teaches when he's off tour to hundreds of students across the globe.
Endorsements: PRS guitars and amps, Friedman Amps, Ernie Ball strings and straps, Fractal Audio, Dimarzio pickups, Xotic effects, Wampler effects, Maxon effects, Hermida Audio.
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I'm a fifty eight year old newbie who owns a guitar which has been sitting untouched in a corner for about seven years now. Last weekend I got inspired to pick it up and finally learn how to play after watching an amazing Spanish guitarist on TV. So, here I am. I'm starting at the beginning with Steve Eulberg and I couldn't be happier (except for the sore fingers :) Some day I'm going to play like Steve! I'm self employed with a hectic schedule. With Jamplay I can fit in a random session when I have time and I can go at my own pace, rewinding and replaying the videos until I get it. This is a very enjoyable diversion from my work yet I still feel like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile. Thanks a lot, Greg
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Two monks plus many who join them in prayer: a very special kind of monastic community lives here, more than 200 years after the last Benedictine monks left the monastery on Reichenau. It was the residents of the island who saw to it that the Benedictine tradition was revived on this island in Lake Constance.
There were plans in place for "Project Liturgy of the Hours", which morphed into St. Benedict's Cella on the island of Reichenau. All of this work is down to the locals' commitment. After the last of the clergy left the monastery in 1803, two monks now live and work on the largest island in Lake Constance, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded in 724, Reichenau was one of the most prominent medieval monasteries. Its 10th and 11th century illuminated manuscripts are one of the monastery's major talking points. They are now included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register and in the possession of Baden State Library in Karlsruhe.
The pastoral side of Benedictine tradition is the main aspect preserved on Reichenau in the 21st century. This includes the Liturgy of the Hours in the Egino Chapel of the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Niederzell. These services are open to all seeking silence and contemplation. Unlike the monastic complex, where all that remains is underground, the churches have remained intact. One of which is the Church of St. Mary and Mark in Mittelzell, with its late Gothic chancel, Ottonian nave, convent, cloister and unique Renaissance frescos in the chancel of the triple-nave basilica. Or St. Peter and Paul, the second-oldest church on the island, with its impressive interior and opulent paintings in the apse.
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SRACO Company. (SRACO), founded in 1982, is one of the oldest established independent companies in Saudi Arabia. Headquartered in Dammam, SRACO has offices in Riyadh and Jeddah. As a conglomerate, SRACO has a workforce of over 15000 employees gainfully employed throughout the Kingdom.
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Make getting lost a thing of the past.
Unless compatibility with a heart rate monitor is an absolute must for you, Garmin's new Edge Touring will be sufficient for all of your navigational needs. With it, you're able to view 17 hours worth of turn-by-turn, bike-specific directions to almost any location that you desire.
Essentially, Garmin's Edge Touring operates in the same way as the GPS navigator in your car, only this computer provides you with bicycle-specific routes and options. In other words, you're not going to be finding yourself in the middle of a five-lane highway with the Edge Touring. Instead, Garmin has preloaded bike-specific maps into the microSD card of the Edge Touring. Here's how it works. Simply search for a place of interest and the Edge Touring will display turn-by-turn cycling routes to your destination and back to the destination of your choosing. Even better, Garmin has refined the route possibilities by enabling you to search by the kind of riding that you intend on doing. By this, we mean that there are road cycling, tour cycling, and mountain bike route modes, which will display either roads, trails, or bike paths in order to get you to your destination.
Garmin has even made it possible to tell the device how far you want to travel, and with its round trip routing, the Edge Touring will give you three ride options to bring you back to Point A. Accordingly, the ability to plan rest stops and site seeing has been simplified. And in case you're looking for a little travel inspiration, Garmin has ensured that you're able to peruse rides and routes that others have completed via your Garmin Connect or Garmin Adventures account online. And after you find a route that you want to try, you're able to download it to your Edge Touring CPU for your next ride. Additionally, you're also able to customize existing routes, or create new ones, before you download them to your device. Of course, both of these programs allow you to relive and share your ride with all of your friends, family, or fellow Garmin riders.
And when you're en route, Garmin has provided you with access to what it calls POIs, or points of interest. These include lists and directions to everything from lodging, to shopping, to restaurants along the way of your route. Even better, all of these POIs are specific to cyclists.
The body of the Edge Touring has been designed for rugged use, which of course, means that it's waterproof. Further along these lines, the simple-to-use touch screen interface has been designed for use with gloves, making it fully-functional in both cold and wet weather. Additionally, with a display size of 1.4 x 2.2-inches, and with a display resolution of 160 x 240 pixels, the screen is easy to see through multiple lighting conditions.
This device features a barometric altimeter, and it's also compatible with ANT+ devices. However, it's important to note that the Edge Touring is not compatible with powermeters. Lastly, the Edge Touring is operates from a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery that will run for around 17 hours per charge.
The Garmin Edge Touring is available in one color and it weighs around 3.5 ounces. Included in the box is the Edge Touring unit, a quarter-turn bike mount, one USB cable, a Garmin cycling map on microSD, and a quick-start manual.
- 17 hour lithium-ion battery
- 1.4 x 2.2in screen
- Preloaded with bike-specific maps
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January 18, 2018
Will this model link with Strava?
James C.
March 29, 2016
does the edge touring basic have % grade and temperature?
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March 29, 2016
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My Dad wants to bike across the US next year, so he picked one of these up recently. Here are his thoughts: "I've only used it a few times, but so far I'm extremely happy with this model. It's very easy to use. I would highly recommend it." From what I've gathered from our conversations, the Edge Touring gives him all of the functionality and ease-of-use that he's used to with his Garmin car GPS.
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- I've put it through the wringer
It took me a while to figure out just what was the best way to use this thing for the type of riding that I do, but I have to say that now that I know it is pretty cool. I do a lot of remote off road riding in northern Mexico and I an impressed by how many of the "roads" and trails for that matter are actually recognized by the Garmin software. I can easily create courses and have them uploaded to the device from my computer and use these courses with the alarm function to keep me from getting seriously turned around. I don't really care about where all the dunkin donuts or Applebee's locations are, but when it comes to getting out in the boonies this thing is cool.
David M.
April 28, 2014
I had an edge 305 previously. It had all...
I had an edge 305 previously. It had all that i needed. Namely cadence, speed, elevation, grade and it plots the route i took "real-time" coz i can view it on the device while i ride. Especially when i am in the trail so i can backtrack my way home. Can the touring do all these? Thanks
April 15, 2014
Do you know if the Garmin City Navigator...
Do you know if the Garmin City Navigator maps for Europe are "bike friendly"? In other words, would the Garmin Edge Touring keep you off major highways? I haven't bought the unit quite yet, but am pretty sure it is more or less what I am looking for.
Kevin Rodger
Adam D
April 16, 2014
Yes, This unit is designed to only take the rider on bike friendly roads and routes.
January 30, 2014
how well would this work in North Dakota?...
how well would this work in North Dakota? i live close to the Maah Dah Hey trail and want to know how accurate this would be out on the trail
Chans Brown
February 11, 2014
GPS position accuracy is typically in the 15'-25' range, sometimes better. I'm not familiar with the area but I do see a trail labeled Maah Dah Hey in North Dakota on my Edge Touring along with others like Lone Tree Spring Loop Trail, Upper Paddock Creek Trail and Jones Creek Trail.
December 7, 2013
Does Garmin offer map downloads for European...
Does Garmin offer map downloads for European countries?
Scott Sowle - Scooter
December 7, 2013
Wow, great question Chris! Through research I've found that there is a Garmin Cycle Map for Europe on the microSD card, which is included in the Edge Touring package. All maps that are included on the microSD are bike specific. We also have the Garmin MapSource City Navigator Europe NT and these only work with the Garmin Edge 800 and 810.
David Thiel
December 7, 2013
You should definitely take a look here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl I haven't bought a single map for my garmin. Downloading the free ones does require a little comfort on the computer ... but they work great and the price is right.
David Thiel
December 7, 2013
Oh... and FWIW, Ridewithgps.com seems to have the best turn by turn track files for Garmin. Better than Strava and MapMyRide.
February 11, 2014
I confirmed with Garmin product support that the Edge Touring comes with maps for the US and Canada only. European mapping is not included. If you're going to Europe you can purchase Garmin City Navigator Europe NT mapping.


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Fits all Givi Monolock topracks and flat rear luggage racks like the SW-MOTECH Alu-Rack. Not compatible with Givi Monokey topracks.Includes "universal" Monolock adapter plate that may be permanently bolted to an SW-MOTECH Alu-Rack, a Five-Stars rear rack, and most other existing flat rear luggage rack constructed of metal tubes.
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I like this case very much. Deceptively roomy. I've used it for 2 seasons and found two problems. One is that the screws that hold the plastic linking pieces between the two lids invariably pulled out of the lid so I just had to open out the lid entirely which I'm sure put stress on the spine. I recently found that using a slightly longer screw (upper lid) doesn't pierce anything would poke through externally, and it holds really well now. I could have avoided the scratches as the lid fell open in hotel rooms! Secondly, the top lid is quite tall as the case opens in the centre. I would prefer that more of the capacity was in the bottom lid (V46 monokey is better balanced). I find I have to balance a pile of things and make sure they aren't hanging over the sides as I close the lid. Then when I open it I have to be ready to stop things sliding off. I bought some shock cord (thin black bungee cord) and a few small adhesive stickers designed to hold cable ties. I stuck four into the top lid about half way up, at front and back, and strung the shock cord through, forming two parallel lines about 15cm apart. I securing the cord to the holders using cable ties. I tuck my rain suit in there and it is out of the way when I don't need it and easy to get to when I do. It's great! I ended up putting a further adhesive holder in and stretching the shock cord to cover more of the case on the kick stand side with an angled extra length of the cord (like a shortened V shape with the existing line), as the suit tended to slide under the cords as I parked the bike and the case tilted. At $8 was an inexpensive solution to those little annoyances as you grapple with the contents.
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The Miiverse is full of amazing and creative output, but If I had to choose one board that consistently impresses me, it's the Netflix community. Not only is it full of truly talented people, it's surprisingly varied in subject matter. Everything on Netflix is fair game, from Large Marge to Jay Sherman.
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Welcome to the office of the General Secretary of the Church of the Nazarene.
From the early days of the denomination, God had a plan and purpose for the people called Nazarenes. The message of holiness, one that had social implications, burned in the hearts of early members. That passion is still alive and, in fact, has been revitalized in recent years. We have a hope-filled message that is a joy to share with people who are hungry for deeper meaning in life. Our mission is simply stated: "To make Christlike disciples in the nations." We proclaim the good news of the gospel in 162 world areas. The general secretary is charged with recordkeeping for these areas and the credentialing process of ministers as well as responsibilities for Manual procedural issues and legal questions. We are here to serve the church. It is my hope that you will find answers to your questions as you connect to the various links on this site.
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I have successfully completed a OpenGL ES 1.1 app for Android and people seem to like it. Now I'm reading the book "Open GL ES 2.0 Programming Guide" and trying to learn about how to use shaders. I think I get most of it, but I'm confused on a few points.
In 1.1, it was pretty straightforward. I would send OpenGL my list of vertices, texture coords and normals, and then call glDrawElements() and my model would get drawn.
Now in 2.0, I can specify the Vertex Attributes, which include the vertices, texture coords and normals, and maybe more. Then I call glDrawElements() and specify the indices of the vertices of my triangles. This time, it is my vertex shader which understands which attribute is position, and then puts it in gl_position, which the frag shader will pick up and use.
What I'm confused about is whether I have to send the attributes every time I draw, or next frame (where perhaps the only thing different is the view matrix) do I only have to call glDrawElements() again with the indices? Do the Vertex Attributes persist?
Another question is, where do the primitives get clipped against the view frustum? Does my application have to be careful to only send primitives which are in the view for performance reasons, or would OpenGL clip them fairly early in the chain anyway, so I don't need to work very hard at not sending triangles which have no chance of being in the view?
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Donna Summer was known as the "Queen of Disco," but the Boston native was successful in several formats before her untimely passing in 2012, including rock, pop, and gospel.
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Among those who help pump up what was already a pretty ecstatic catalog are Summer's original main man Giorgio Moroder, who revisits the famous murmurs and moans of "Love to Love You Baby" and adds some contemporary tweaks and shrieks to the original icy undulations.
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Laidback Luke is anything but low-key on his eruptive remix of "MacArthur Park" and Chromeo and Oliver get points for the best use of Summer's original vocal on "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)."
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Penn State Sponsors Anxiously Watch How Events Unfold at University
Cars.com is one of the first to distance itself from Penn State's scandal.
Nov. 11, 2011 -- Cars.com has withdrawn its sponsorship of ESPN's Saturday Afternoon College Football for the next two weeks, which includes Penn State games, making it one of the first companies to distance itself after the recent arrest of former defensive football coach Jerry Sandusky.
After a Penn State student riot over coach Joe Paterno's firing, the university may soon see more corporate sponsors rebelling against its brand.
A spokeswoman for Cars.com said that the move was "due to the recent allegations surrounding the Penn State football program."
"As a proud, longtime supporter of ESPN College Football, it's important to us that we're building our brand in a way that celebrates the sport, its fans and the dedication of its student athletes," she said in a statement.
The company said it worked with ESPN to redistribute its commercial ad units during these games.
The university-wide athletics program has dozens of sponsors, like Pepsi and AT&T, who are closely watching the university's next move. The school's football program is considered its crown jewel, bringing in $72 million a year, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Sponsors Chevrolet, PNC Financial, John Deere, State Farm Insurance, the American Red Cross and healthcare company Highmark told ABC News they are not jumping ship yet.
Since former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on 40 criminal counts on Saturday for allegedly abusing at least eight boys over 15 years, no sponsor has publicly canceled its contract with Penn State.
Sandusky has been reportedly released on bail of $100,000.
The university's board of trustees fired legendary head football coach Joe Paterno on Wednesday. Interim coach Tom Bradley will take Paterno's place during the school's last home game on Saturday against the Unversity of Nebraska. The board also fired university president, Graham Spanier, Wednesday evening.
Spanier, college president for 16 years, said in a statement his "heartfelt sympathies go out to all those who may have been victimized" and "he would never hesitate to report a crime if I had any suspicion that one had been committed."
It is too early to tell whether Penn State's corporate sponsors will bail on the university, said Scott Rosner, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Though the logo of paint company and Penn State sponsor Sherwin Williams was no longer on the press conference backdrop behind interim coach Tom Bradley on Thursday. Sherwin Williams did not return a request for comment.
Before the scandal broke on Saturday, Penn State was one of the most "undermonetized stars" in college sports, said Rosner, also associate director of Wharton's Sports Business Initiative.
"It was a paradigm with safe, conservative, and tremendous values that were the best of collegiate athletics," he said.
Pepsi has had a major partnership with Penn State, including a $14 million 10-year deal from 1992 that named it the official beverage on campus. Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo CEO since 2006, gave the Penn State commencement address in August 2010 and was awarded an honorary degree. The company didn't return a request for comment.
Rosner said the school's brand was strengthened by the football program and its reputation had a "halo effect" on not just the athletics department but the rest of the university as well. Rosner said the most important next move even more so than the next university president, is who they appoint as permanent head football coach, because of the importance of the football program.
Unlike other college scandals that have been contained within a particular college sport, or a university athletic department, the Penn State scandal has broad university-wide implications because of possible irresponsibility from a university leader, he said. Rosner suggested one way the university can begin to help the situation is to donate its ticket sales from Saturday's football game to a charity for sexual abuse victims or a sexual abuse awareness campaign, or starting their own initiative. Penn State alums have already begun fundraising for victims of sex crimes.
Penn State did not return a request for comment.
Rosner said some sponsors may not be able to exit from deals with the university unless their contracts included a "morals clause." A term like that would allow particular moral turpitude to void a sponsorship agreement.
But even if the football program were to lose all of the reported $72 million it receives from football ticket sales, fundraising and media deals with the Big Ten conference, Rosner said that is just a drop in the bucket compared with its reported $4 billion a year budget.
"Sponsors at root like to avoid controversy. The real question is whether Penn State is toxic yet," said Stephen Greyser, Harvard Business School professor emeritus specializing in the business of sports.
"Tiger Woods got toxic in a hurry," Greyser said of the pro golfer who took a break from competing as the media reported multiple alleged sexual affairs two years ago. Within the first three months of Wood's car accident that eventually led to stories of his affairs, AT&T, Accenture, and Gatorade dropped their sponsorship deals with the athlete. Gillette did not renew its endorsement deal with him when it ended in December 2010.
Penn State is one of many universities that receive sponsorship funds from John Deere, based in Moline, Ill. A spokesman for John Deere said the company "will fulfill the contracted terms of our agreement" but declined to comment on the recent actions of Penn State University and the future of the sponsorship. The company has a program that allows independent dealers to promote products.
"As we do with all sponsorships, we routinely assess the conditions under which our brand name is used in the marketplace and we will do that in this situation," spokesman Ken Golden told ABC News.
Pat Morrissey, a spokesman for sponsor Chevrolet, said "we plan to continue to support the student athletes, however, we will continue to review the various elements of our sponsorship."
PNC Financial Services Group has had an advertising relationship with Penn State since 1982, and a company spokesman said "it has been an effective way to reach students and alumni in the state and around the country." The company is one of many that has had a prominent place on Beaver Stadium's scoreboard during football games.
Fred Solomon, spokesman, said the company is "aware of the very serious allegations at State College, and we are watching closely as events unfold."
Insurance company Highmark has also had a "multi-year" sponsorship contract with Penn State athletics.
Aaron Billger, Highmark spokesman, said "we are saddened by the current allegations linked to the athletic program and any harmful impact to the young people who have participated in Second Mile activities," referring to the charity through which Sandusky allegedly met a victim.
State Farm Insurance spokesman Jeff McCollum said the company will continue to support college athletic programs around the country as it has for decades.
"As a company that cares about building and sustaining safer communities, we are deeply concerned about the recent allegations involving Penn State," the company said in a statement. "We support all efforts to fully investigate this matter."
Laura Howe, spokeswoman for the Red Cross, another of Penn State's sponsors, says the organization does not have plans to cancel its university partnership. The organization has conducted blood drives on campus for more than half a century, according to Howe.
"Members of the greater Penn State University family have a positive impact in their communities every day and we will continue to partner with them to help save lives," she said.
Greyser said only after the details of the attorney general's investigation develop, such as the timeline of events and who knew what, sponsors can decide for themselves how deep the situation looks.
"To some people, Paterno may be a convenient highly visible scapegoat," he said. "He's not in criminal trouble right now, but we don't know what else will emerge."


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"Invest immediately, invest wisely and invest for the long term."
The ideas work as financial advice, but Hope College Commencement speaker Rob Pocock had a larger purpose in mind for the members of the graduating Class of 2010: a model for how to make the most of their lives across all the years to come.
"What are you going to do to be a good steward of the countless investments that have been made in your life culminating in what we pause to celebrate today?" he asked.
Pocock, who is an adjunct assistant professor of communication at the college and associate vice president of communications at Priority Health, delivered the address "Compound Interest" on Sunday, May 9, at Holland Municipal Stadium.
More than 650 graduating seniors participated in the ceremony, the college's 145th. The class consisted of students from throughout the United States as well as Belgium, Brazil, Ghana, Japan, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Tanzania and Uganda.
Prior to the Commencement address, the graduating class presented the 46th "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award to Dr. Jesus Montaño, associate professor of English. The award, first given in 1965, is presented by the graduating class to the professor who they feel epitomizes the best qualities of the Hope College educator.
After all of the graduating seniors had been honored, Hope surprised Provost Dr. James Boelkins with conferral of an honorary degree in recognition of his years of service to Hope. Boelkins, who had announced all of the graduates during the ceremony, is retiring at the end of the school year after serving as provost since 2002.
Pocock demonstrated the effectiveness of compound interest—when interest earned is added to the principal and itself earns interest--in a hands-on way, sharing a bucket of 653 $1 coins—one for each member of the class. If invested immediately at 10 percent interest, he noted, the 653 coins would be worth more than $109,000 in 50 years.
He encouraged the graduates to think of their lives across the next half century in the same terms.
"Now, I've set a benchmark for what kind of compound interest you can expect from this coin. What sort of compound interest are you going to expect from… no, no, no, no, no, what kind of compound interest are you going to demand… from your diploma?," he said. "Now, while the formula for calculating compound interest on a diploma probably isn't quite as easily defined as that for a coin, the steps I suggest remain the same: invest immediately, invest wisely and invest for the long term."
Just as the graduates would do well to be good stewards of the material things in life, he said, so should they be exceptional stewards "of the things in life that really matter." Accordingly, he asked them to invest in all dimensions of their lives, outlining four steps.
First, he said, "Promise yourself that you'll identify ways to earn compound interest intellectually. Don't let the last good book that you read be the one that Doc Hemenway assigned you in one of his amazing classes. Embrace a genuine curiosity, challenge yourself to learn something new each day."
Second, Pocock said, "Promise yourself that you'll live a lifestyle that seeks compound interest physically. Don't let Coach Van Wieren's Health Dynamics class be the last time you intentionally think about good nutrition and regular exercise. Moderation is an incredible habit that will provide a wonderful return on investment."
Third, he said, "Promise yourself that you will earn compound interest socially. Don't let Dance Marathon be the last time that you express your love for people that you've never even met. Our world craves servant leaders. And I'm excited to see the many ways that each of you gives back to the communities in which you live."
And fourth, he said, "Promise yourself that you'll earn compound interest spiritually. Don't let last Sunday's Gathering be the last worship service you attend for a while simply because all the churches where you live are 'boring.' Faith must be nurtured and nourished. A vibrant faith impacts every aspect of our lives as we love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, and our neighbor as we love ourselves."
The graduation activities began in the morning with the college's Baccalaureate service in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, during which the Rev. Kate Davelaar, who is a chaplain on the campus ministries staff at the college, delivered the sermon "Keeping Your Back to the Future."
She built her message around Isaiah 30:18-21 and John 14:5-7. She cited both passages for the way that they explain that God provides guidance for the journey through life.
Davelaar derived her title from the Old Testament passage and what she described as the ancient Hebrew perspective of considering God's relationship to their ancestors—Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jacob and others—to inform their lives.
"In some of our translations of the Hebrew text, we find references to 'the coming days'—referring to the future—a literal translation of the Hebrew, however, would be 'in the behind days,'" she said. "Because the Hebrews faced the past, the days yet to come were behind them. The Hebrews, in a very literal sense, backed into the future."
"When you keep your back to the future a few things happen," Davelaar said. "One, you are constantly aware of God's faithfulness. Looking back gives us the perspective that God has carried us through before and this bolsters our ability to trust that God will indeed carry us through again."
"This bolstering is essential, because the other thing that keeping our back to the future does is requires us to trust," she said. She likened such trust to how essential it would be to have a reliable guide pointing out obstacles if one were literally walking backward.
The New Testament, she noted, provides that guide in Jesus Christ, quoted in John 14:6 as saying "I am the way, and the truth, and the life."
"Keeping our back to the future and our eyes on Christ helps us to drown out the persistent voices that lure us to believe the truth of another way—that we are to do whatever it takes to get ahead, be the best, the smartest, the wealthiest, the most beautiful," she said.
"The Word says, however, that when you turn to the left or when you turn to the right you will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,'" she said. "It is less about questioning whether it's this job, that program, this person, or that city, and more about trusting that you do know the way—and that Way is not simply a path, but a person."


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A limited supply of tickets remain for the supporters' trip to Bridgeview this weekend. As of Wednesday afternoon, only five bus spots were open on the two buses the NorOnTour is taking to watch the Crew take on the Fire, according to Kevin McCollough, a member of Crew Union leadership. In all, the supporters groups have sold 205 of the 250 seats in Section 134 at Toyota Park.
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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks to Chuck Todd about why he thinks it's important to "maintain the integrity" of the Farm Bill.
The Senate is on the cusp of passing a nearly $1 trillion agriculture and nutrition bill that affects everything from corn subsidies to food stamps to the cost of an acre of farm land.
The huge piece of legislation, slated for passage Tuesday, is called the "farm bill" – and it has real-world consequences for the American economy, and for politics in 2014 and beyond.
The biggest and most publicized portion of the bill is nutrition assistance, mostly food stamps, which will be cut by $8 billion, but there are plenty of other reasons to pay attention to what's in it.
You should care about this bill if…
You pay taxes: The measure will cost taxpayers $956 billion over 10 years. That's a lot of money by most standards, but the Congressional Budget Office says the bill will cut deficits by nearly $17 billion, compared to prior law. Last year's House version of the farm bill would have gone much further, cutting deficits by $50 billion.
The new farm bill passed by the House yesterday and expected to sail through the senate, includes $8B in cuts to the food stamp program over the next decade. How will recipients be affected? Maragarette Purvis discusses.
You or your neighbor have fallen on hard times: Even though the bill cuts spending on food assistance by $8 billion over 10 years (about 1 percent of the program's total), taxpayers will still be spending more than $70 billion a year to help low-income people buy food, mostly through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps.
You eat: The first farm bill was enacted in 1933. Since then, subsidies in the form of loans, direct payments, payments to offset falling prices, and subsidized crop insurance have become a way of life. The bill "provides a certainty and a safety net for farm families" enabling them to borrow money to buy the equipment, seed, and other inputs they need to produce their crops, said Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt.
Would the price of the rice you get with your Kung Pao chicken go up by five cents, or 50 cents, or not at all, were there no farm bill?
"I don't know that if the bill hadn't passed you'd see a difference next week," said Reece Langley, vice president of government affairs at the USA Rice Federation, which represents the American rice industry. But "we're operating in a very competitive global environment. If we don't have policies like this for our producers, it's going to make it impossible for them to compete against these heavily-subsidized countries that are large rice producers and exporters."
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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, a farmer tills a field in preparation for spring planting near England, Ark. A new farm bill that could become law as soon as next week would require a choice between different subsidy approaches that require producers to suffer losses before they can get payouts. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Without subsidies, some U.S. rice farmers would go out of business or shift into other crops, Langley said. "As that happens and you're bringing down supply in this country, then we're going to see prices start moving upward."
He added that the bill does change policy by eliminating direct payments to farmers – "money that was going out to producers every year regardless of prices, regardless of profits" and "shifting to policies that are purely there to help manage risk and are only going to provide support in periods of a loss."
You want bipartisan cooperation: Gridlock is the loser here. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., said that while "many people criticize us and this body as dysfunctional," this was one case where Congress functioned in a bipartisan way: 70 percent of House Republicans voted for it, as well as two-out-of-five House Democrats.
You're a Tea Party conservative or one of their adversaries: Tea Party conservatives tried to end the tradition that if you supported farm subsidies, you had to vote for food stamps since the two measures were packaged together.
After scoring a short-lived victory last summer when the House passed a farm-only bill and stripped out nutrition assistance, conservatives lost in the end.
Last summer "we ended this unholy alliance between food stamp and farm programs … (and) defeated business as usual by passing the first farm-only farm bill in nearly 40 years," said Indiana Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman.
But the bill the House passed last week, he said, represents "exactly the kind of logrolling that we fought to prevent."
You care about which party controls the Senate: The farm bill is an issue in the tossup Senate race in Arkansas, the nation's leading rice-producing state.
Sen. Mark Pryor, a Democrat seeking his third term, attacked his Republican opponent Rep. Tom Cotton, the only member of the Arkansas congressional delegation to vote against the bill last week. "This farm bill means good jobs and economic security for families across Arkansas," Pryor said, calling Cotton's vote "reckless and irresponsible."
But Cotton said the bill costs too much and "fails to make real reforms – lacking even common-sense work requirements that would provide job training to able-bodied adults receiving food stamps."
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DINNER was the usual affair on Thursday night in Apartment 9F in an elegant prewar on Lower Fifth Avenue. There was shredded cabbage with fruit-scrap vinegar; mashed parsnips and yellow carrots with local butter and fresh thyme; a terrific frittata; then homemade yogurt with honey and thyme tea, eaten under the greenish flickering light cast by two beeswax candles and a fluorescent bulb.
A sour odor hovered oh-so-slightly in the air, the faint tang, not wholly unpleasant, that is the mark of the home composter. Isabella Beavan, age 2, staggered around the neo-Modern furniture — the Eames chairs, the brown velvet couch, the Lucite lamps and the steel cafe table upon which dinner was set — her silhouette greatly amplified by her organic cotton diapers in their enormous boiled-wool, snap-front cover.
A visitor avoided the bathroom because she knew she would find no toilet paper there.
Meanwhile, Joseph, the liveried elevator man who works nights in the building, drove his wood-paneled, 1920s-era vehicle up and down its chute, unconcerned that the couple in 9F had not used his services in four months. "I've noticed," Joseph said later with a shrug and no further comment. (He declined to give his last name. "I've got enough problems," he said.)
Welcome to Walden Pond, Fifth Avenue style. Isabella's parents, Colin Beavan, 43, a writer of historical nonfiction, and Michelle Conlin, 39, a senior writer at Business Week, are four months into a yearlong lifestyle experiment they call No Impact. Its rules are evolving, as Mr. Beavan will tell you, but to date include eating only food (organically) grown within a 250-mile radius of Manhattan; (mostly) no shopping for anything except said food; producing no trash (except compost, see above); using no paper; and, most intriguingly, using no carbon-fueled transportation.
Mr. Beavan, who has written one book about the origins of forensic detective work and another about D-Day, said he was ready for a new subject, hoping to tread more lightly on the planet and maybe be an inspiration to others in the process.
Also, he needed a new book project and the No Impact year was the only one of four possibilities his agent thought would sell. This being 2007, Mr. Beavan is showcasing No Impact in a blog (noimpactman.com) laced with links and testimonials from New Environmentalist authorities like treehugger.com. His agent did indeed secure him a book deal, with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and he and his family are being tailed by Laura Gabbert, a documentary filmmaker and Ms. Conlin's best friend.
Why there may be a public appetite for the Conlin-Beavan family doings has a lot to do with the very personal, very urban face of environmentalism these days. Thoreau left home for the woods to make his point (and secure his own book deal); Mr. Beavan and Ms. Conlin and others like them aren't budging from their bricks-and-mortar, haut-bourgeois nests.
Mr. Beavan looks to groups like the Compacters (sfcompact.blogspot.com), a collection of nonshoppers that began in San Francisco, and the 100 Mile Diet folks (100milediet.org and thetyee.ca), a Vancouver couple who spent a year eating from within 100 miles of their apartment, for tips and inspiration. But there are hundreds of other light-footed, young abstainers with a diarist urge: it is not news that this shopping-averse, carbon-footprint-reducing, city-dwelling generation likes to blog (the paperless, public diary form). They have seen "An Inconvenient Truth"; they would like to tell you how it makes them feel. If Al Gore is their Rachel Carson, blogalogs like Treehugger, grist.org and worldchanging.com are their Whole Earth catalogs.
Andrew Kirk, an environmental history professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, whose new book, "Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism," will be published by University Press of Kansas in September, is reminded of environmentalism's last big bubble, in the 1970s, long before Ronald Reagan pulled federal funding for alternative fuel technologies (and his speechwriters made fun of the spotted owl and its liberal protectors, a deft feat of propaganda that set the movement back decades). Those were the days when Stewart Brand and his Whole Earth writers, Mr. Kirk said, "focused on a brand of environmentalism that kept people in the picture."
"That's the thing about this current wave of environmentalism," he continued. "It's not about, how do we protect some abstract pristine space? It's what can real people do in their home or office or whatever. It's also very urban. It's a critical twist in the old wilderness adage: Leave only footprints, take only photographs. But how do you translate that into Manhattan?"
With equals parts grace and calamity, it appears. Washed down with a big draught of engaging palaver.
Before No Impact — this is a phrase that comes up a lot — Ms. Conlin and Mr. Beavan were living a near parody of urban professional life. Ms. Conlin, who bought this apartment in 1999 when she was still single, used the stove so infrequently (as in, never, she said) that Con Edison called to find out if it was broken. (Mr. Beavan, now the family cook, questioned whether she had yet to turn it on. Ms. Conlin ignored him.)
In this household, food was something you dialed for.
"We would wake up and call 'the man,' " Ms. Conlin said, "and he would bring us two newspapers and coffee in Styrofoam cups. Sometimes we'd call two men, and get bagels from Bagel Bob's. For lunch I'd find myself at Wendy's, with a Dunkin' Donuts chaser. Isabella would point to guys on bikes and cry: 'The man! The man!' "
Since November, Mr. Beavan and Isabella have been hewing closely, most particularly in a dietary way, to a 19th-century life. Mr. Beavan has a single-edge razor he has learned to use (it was a gift from his father). He has also learned to cook quite tastily from a limited regional menu — right now that means lots of apples and root vegetables, stored in the unplugged freezer — hashing out compromises. Spices are out but salt is exempt, Mr. Beavan said, because homemade bread "is awful without salt; salt stops the yeast action." Mr. Beavan is baking his own, with wheat grown locally and a sour dough "mother" fermenting stinkily in his cupboard. He is also finding good sources at the nearby Union Square Greenmarket (like Ronnybrook Farm Dairy, which sells milk in reusable glass bottles). The 250-mile rule, by the way, reflects the longest distance a farmer can drive in and out of the city in one day, Mr. Beavan said.
Olive oil and vinegar are out; they used the last dregs of their bottle of balsamic vinegar last week, Mr. Beavan said, producing a moment of stunned silence while a visitor thought about life without those staples. Still, Mr. Beavan's homemade fruit-scrap vinegar has a satisfying bite.
The television, a flat-screen, high-definition 46-incher, is long gone. Saturday night charades are in. Mr. Beavan likes to talk about social glue — community building — as a natural byproduct of No Impact. The (fluorescent) lights are still on, and so is the stove. Mr. Beavan, who has a Ph.D. in applied physics, has not yet figured out a carbon-fuel-free power alternative that will run up here on the ninth floor, though he does subscribe to Con Ed's Green Power program, for which he pays a premium, and which adds a measure of wind and hydro power to the old coal and nuclear grid.
The dishwasher is off, along with the microwave, the coffee machine and the food processor. Planes, trains, automobiles and that elevator are out, but the family is still doing laundry in the washing machines in the basement of the building. (Consider the ramifications of no-elevator living in a vertical city: one day recently, when Frankie the dog had digestive problems, Mr. Beavan, who takes Isabella to day care — six flights of stairs in a building six blocks away — and writes at the Writers Room on Astor Place — 12 flights of stairs, also six blocks away — estimated that by nightfall he had climbed 115 flights of stairs.) And they have not had the heart to take away the vacuum from their cleaning lady, who comes weekly (this week they took away her paper towels).
Until three weeks ago, however, Ms. Conlin was following her "high-fructose corn syrup ways," meaning double espressos and pastries administered daily. "Giving up the coffee was like crashing down from a crystal meth addiction," she said. "I had to leave work and go to bed for 24 hours."
Toothpaste is baking soda (a box makes trash, to be sure, but of a better quality than a metal tube), but Ms. Conlin is still wearing the lipstick she gets from a friend who works at Lancôme, as well as moisturizers from Fresh and Kiehl's. When the bottles, tubes and jars are empty, Mr. Beavan has promised her homemade, rules-appropriate substitutes. (Nothing is a substitute for toilet paper, by the way; think of bowls of water and lots of air drying.)
Yet since the beginning of No Impact, and to the amusement of her colleagues at Business Week, Ms. Conlin has been scootering to her office on 49th Street each day, bringing a Mason jar filled with greenhouse greens, cheese and her husband's bread for lunch, along with her own napkin and cutlery. She has taken a bit of ribbing: "All progress is carbon fueled," jeered one office mate.
Ms. Conlin, acknowledging that she sees her husband as No Impact Man and herself as simply inside his experiment, said she saw "An Inconvenient Truth" in an air-conditioned movie theater last summer. "It was like, 'J'accuse!' " she said. "I just felt like everything I did in my life was contributing to a system that was really problematic." Borrowing a phrase from her husband, she continued, "If I was a student, I would march against myself."
While Ms. Conlin is clearly more than just a good sport — giving up toilet paper seems a fairly profound gesture of commitment — she did describe, in loving detail, a serious shopping binge that predated No Impact and made the whole thing doable, she said. "It was my last hurrah," she explained.
It included two pairs of calf-high Chloe boots (one of which was paid for, she said, with her mother's bingo winnings) and added up to two weeks' salary, after taxes and her 401(k) contribution.
The bingo windfall points to a loophole in No Impact: the Conlin-Beavan household does accept presents. When Mr. Beavan's father saw Ms. Conlin scootering without gloves he sent her a pair. And allowances can be made for the occasional thrift shop purchase. For Isabella's birthday on Feb. 25, her family wandered the East Village and ended up at Jane's Exchange, where she chose a pair of ballet slippers as her gift.
"They cost a dollar," Ms. Conlin said.
It was freezing cold that day, Mr. Beavan said, picking up the story. "We went into a restaurant to warm her up. We agonized about taking a cab, which we ended up not doing. I still felt like we really screwed up, though, because we ate at the restaurant."
He said he called the 100 Mile Diet couple to confess his sin. They admitted they had cheated too, with a restaurant date, then told him, Yoda-like, "Only in strictness comes the conversion."
Restaurants, which are mostly out in No Impact, present all sorts of challenges beyond the 250-mile food rule. "They always want to give Isabella the paper cup with the straw, and we have to send it back," Mr. Beavan said. "We always say, 'We're trying not to make any trash.' And some people get really into that and others clearly think we're big losers."
Living abstemiously on Lower Fifth Avenue, in what used to be Edith Wharton country, with early-21st-century accouterments like creamy, calf-high Chloe boots, may seem at best like a scene from an old-fashioned situation comedy and, at worst, an ethically murky exercise in self-promotion. On the other hand, consider this response to Mr. Beavan's Internet post the day he and his family gave up toilet paper.
"What's with the public display of nonimpactness?" a reader named Bruce wrote on March 7. "Getting people to read a blog on their 50-watt L.C.D. monitors and buy a bound volume of postconsumer paper and show the filmed doc in a heated/air-conditioned movie theater, etc., sounds like nonimpact man is leading to a lot of impact. And how are you going to measure your nonimpact, except in rather self-centered ways like weight loss and better sex? (Wait, maybe I should stop there.)"
Indeed. Concrete benefits are already accruing to Ms. Conlin and Mr. Beavan that may tempt others. The sea may be rising, but Ms. Conlin has lost 4 pounds and Mr. Beavan 20. It took Ms. Conlin over an hour to get home from work during the snowstorm on Friday, riding her scooter, then walking in her knee-high Wellingtons with her scooter on her back, but she claimed to be mostly exhilarated by the experience. "Rain is worse," she said.
Perhaps the real guinea pig in this experiment is the Conlin-Beavan marriage.
"Like all writers, I'm a megalomaniac," Mr. Beavan said cheerfully the other day. "I'm just trying to put that energy to good use."


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Chris P Bacon wrote:Black reticle on a black hogs at night don't work, ask me how I know.
Leupold however, is a little TOO proud of their illuminating scopes pricewise (at least for my tastes compared to other offerings).
If price is no object, and you're a diehard Leupold fan. Well...they have illuminated, what are you waiting for?
I wanted illuminated ballistic plex reticle, with a lifetime warranty, and a scope that is double sprung, to handle the recoil of the 450 (and last), at a more modest price. My vote goes to the Burris FullField E1 3-9x40 Riflescope with Illuminated Ballistic Plex E1 Reticle Model 200322. It's street price for these features is hard to beat.
Didn't see a need for an elevation dial for a host of reasons that I wont get into here unless asked. But will divulge, since 300yrds is 'bout the max with this round, and most animals will be taken at 200yrds (or less, by me, with this equipment). The Plex is a quick alternative way to get off an accurate shot without monkeying with dials.
I have the Lepould VX-R with the FireDot ballistic reticle. The FireDot gives you the illumination at the center of the crosshairs, but the holdover/under marks on the scope are not illuminated. I agree that trying to adjust the dials, especially if you will be hunting hogs at night, is a little problematic. With a good ballistic reticle, you can pretty much cover the waterfront with the range marks on the scope out to 300 yards with the BM450. The Burris looks like a good bet to get the illumination you want.


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When the diversity of beauty inspires science
Listening to consumers around the world and getting to know them are key steps in the innovation process.
L'Oréal has built its innovation strategy around getting to know and listening to different groups of people worldwide. The Research division is wide open to the world, with its evaluation centers based on every continent. As new populations are gaining access to cosmetic treatments every day, the almost infinite diversity of types of beauty is both a challenge and an asset. The opening in Chicago in 2003 of a research center dedicated to the ethnicity of skin and hair types around the world illustrates L'Oréal's desire to provide all consumers with products adapted to their needs by drawing on the latest technologies. For the Research and Innovation teams, this means not only continuous development of their knowledge of the physiology of skin and hair types from around the world, to meet the needs of everyone, but also listening to and observing consumers, studying the climate where they live to better understand their beauty rituals and being inspired by them in return. The ultimate goal is to determine the connection between the beauty rituals that bear the imprint of different cultures and the physiology of skin, hair, lashes, nails.


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Russian Arch-group and ABTB are to build the reconstruction of the network control centre of electricity-distribution company Moesk in Moscow, Russia. Main space is a control room of320 m2 with a two-level podium made of corian including workstations for six controllers and a wall of video screens. The wall consists of 36 Barco video cubes showing informations on the condition of the electricity network.
Laconically decorated on a dark floor the second space underlines the dynamical form of a snow-white podium. The wall finish is perforated BILDEX and luminescent lamps hidden behind the translucent ceiling light up the space. Powerful projectors are turned to the workstations.


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Toddler's remains found in Long Island backyard
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- A child welfare investigation has led to a startling discovery of a toddler's corpse on Long Island.
State police said Saturday that they had unearthed the boy's remains from the backyard of a home in Farmingdale, after being told by the boy's mother that he died two years ago, under circumstances that remain unclear.
Authorities say the family never reported the child's death.
Suffolk County officials initially went to the home Wednesday to check on the health of one of the woman's three children.
But they grew concerned when the family couldn't account for the whereabouts of another child, born in 2009.
Investigators are still trying to determine how the child died, and why the family kept it a secret.